DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The bed: a medium for intimate communication
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
I just clicked to say I love you: rich evaluations of minimal communication
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ComSlipper: an expressive design to support awareness and availability
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interpersonal awareness in the domestic realm
OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Holding hands over a distance: technology probes in an intimate, mobile context
OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Connecting the family with awareness systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Memory and Sharing of Experiences
Framing design in the third paradigm
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thermo-message: exploring the potential of heat as a modality of peripheral expression
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HaptiHug: a novel haptic display for communication of hug over a distance
EuroHaptics'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Haptics: generating and perceiving tangible sensations, Part I
Lovers' box: Designing for reflection within romantic relationships
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A design framework for mediated personal relationship devices
BCS-HCI '11 Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Bear-with-me: an embodied prototype to explore tangible two-way exchanges of emotional language
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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There is a growing body of work in HCI on the design of communication technologies to help support lovers in long distance relationships. We build upon this work by presenting an exploratory study of hand-holding prototypes. Our work distinguishes itself by basing distance communication metaphors on elements of familiar, simple co-located behaviours. We argue that the combined evocative power of unique co-created physical representations of the absent other can be used by separated lovers to generate powerful and positive experiences, in turn sustaining romantic connections at a distance.